>>Does anyone know if MS will actually typecheck the declarations or are they for cosmetic purposes the type declarations in VFP7.
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>THey're not for cosmetic purposes entirely, they are sensed at designtime, which is what enabled Intellisense. So if you were to delcare a variable as another class, or a COM object, VFP will figure that out, and then gather all teh properties and Methods and anythign else it needs to drive Intellisense.
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>You can change the type of a variable, because they're are just as the have always been, Variants.

I understand the COM issue but I would have preferred that they also check the datatypes at runtime for variables that are declared as such. For example:

function foo(n as Integer) as string
local i as String
*--the next line should give a run time error.
i = n
return i

I don't know why this would be complicated to do. Of course untyped variables can always be assigned to.